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U.S. aviation authorities issued notices Friday (January 16, 2026) informing airlines to “exercise caution” successful the airspace implicit Mexico and Central America owed to “military activities”.
The Federal Aviation Administration posted a bid of messages cautioning astir a “potentially hazardous situation,” citing the accidental for interference to the Global Navigation Satellite System.
“The FAA issued formation advisory Notices to Airmen for specified areas of Mexico, Central America, Panama, Bogota, Guayaquil and Mazatlan Oceanic Flight Regions, and successful airspace wrong the eastbound Pacific Ocean,” an FAA spokesperson said.
The advisory remains successful effect for 60 days.
The announcement comes amid continued reverberations of a U.S. peculiar forces raid and airstrike connected January 3 that captured Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores to look proceedings connected drug-trafficking and different charges.
President Donald Trump has besides suggested helium is readying onshore strikes connected cause cartels successful Mexico, successful what would people a provocative subject enactment against a U.S. neighbour and large trading partner.
“We are going to commencement present hitting land, with respect to the cartels. The cartels are moving Mexico,” Mr. Trump told Fox News last week.
